The GVO has a comprehensive and totally flexible 'Skills Audit/Matrix' feature that allows governing boards to look at the skills available on the board (and across boards in a MAT) and to identify areas that need strengthening. This can be done by additional training or recruitment.
The Audit is made up of Categories and Questions and can be configured locally/updated to meet the specific needs of your Trust, School or College - you can choose your own layout - the system is VERY flexible.
The 'Matrix' is built up from a series of 'Categories' and each Category contains a series of Questions. Questions can be 'numeric' based on options you define or 'text' based. These two types of questions are reported differently.
The Categories and Questions can be moved around (using drag'n'drop) to the order you require. Each Governor answers each of the numeric questions using a scale of 1-5 (or n/a). A score of 1 indicates little or no knowledge and a score of 5 indicates strong expertise. Text based questions allow text responses. Each category and question has an additional text field to add additional information - this is displayed during audit completion by users.
A comprehensive colour coded reporting tool (see below) analyses the numeric responses from all the members on the Board (or Trust) and displays both a summary and a detailed report which allows the board to see the strengths and weaknesses. Reports can be run for individual boards or across the whole Trust (for a MAT).
There are options to run the reports with certain people missing to see the impact that has.
Text based responses are reported separately...
The numeric responses and text responses can be saved as PDF or EXCEL and a full Download of ALL the data can be made to EXCEL.
Below are links to the sections of the help database to help your local GVO Manager to set up the categories and questions, users to add/edit their responses and how to generate the comprehensive reports for storage, export or printing.
SETTING THE MASTER DATA - CATEGORIES AND QUESTIONS
ADDING/UPDATING YOUR RESPONSES
ADDING THE RESPONSES FOR SOMEONE ELSE (GVO Manager only)
FULL UPDATE OF THE SKILLS AUDIT CATEGORIES and QUESTIONS
UPDATING THE 'DATE COMPLETE' AND RESPONSES FOR USERS
If you need any help with setting up and using this feature in GVO please contact the GVO support desk on 01273 921066.